Thursday April 10

Session 1:Seminars       Thursday, April 10      4:00-6:00 p.m.

1.01 Niagara Room

The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernity (Seminar) 

Chair: Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, University of California--San Diego

• "How the World Stole the Idea of Avant-garde Art" 

Elaine O'Brien, Sacramento State University

• "Can't keep the white man out. Can't keep myself in, either': John Joseph Mathews' Modernism in the Fourth World" 

Hanna Musiol, Northeastern University

• "The Modernist Creole: Returning to the Colonial Center in Jean Rhys' Voyage in the Dark" 

Noreen O'Connor, Georgetown University

• "From the Margins to the Center: Bollywood as an Autoethnographic Vernacular" 

Pooja Rangan, Brown University

• "Splitting Milk: Modernist Dead Metaphor Meets Prophetic Malapropism in Waiting for the Mahatma" 

Hilary Thompson, Bowdoin College

• "'Traduit du Silence': Jean El Mouhoub Amrouche's Poetics of Exile" 

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, University of California--San Diego

1.02 Franklin Room

Queer Nature (Seminar) 

Chair: Robert Azzarello, CUNY Graduate Center

 

• "Undoing Nature: Coalition Building as Queer Environmentalism" 

Katie Hogan, Carlow University

• "Queer as Nature" 

Rebekah Sheldon, CUNY Graduate Center

• "The Place, Promised, That Has Not Yet Been:' The Nature of Dislocation and Desire in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Minnie Bruce Pratt" 

Rachel Stein, Sienna College

• "Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies" 

Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, York University

• "A Filthy Lesson: Gaia, Symbiogenesis and the Queer Eco-System" 

Myra J. Hird, Queens University

1.03 Boardroom

Ethical Criticism After Barthes (Seminar) 

Chair: Nicole Simek, Whitman College

 

• "Theory is a Theory is a Theory: Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and the Ethics of Experimental Storytelling and Criticism" 

Michelle Ty, University of Texas-Austin

• "Barthes and Kermode: On the Pleasure of Ethics and the Ethics of Pleasure" 

Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College

• "Inhabiting Bodies, Inhabiting Texts: Barthes and Narratives of Self and Other" 

Nisha Kunte, University of Southern California

• "After Barthes: Rereading Mourning in Camera Lucida" 

Alina Opreanu, Harvard University

• "Under the Frame: Ethics and Politics in Henry James's The Ambassadors" 

Laurel Harris, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Reading for 'The Neutral': Barthes, Ethics, and Affect" 

Jessica Metzler, Cornell University

• "The Impact of Derrida's Ethical and Narrative Turns" 

Stephen Swanson, Penn State-Erie

1.04 Executive Room

Being There First: A Topos in 19th Century German Exploration (Seminar) 

Chair: Regine Heberlein, Fairfield Museum and History Center

• "In der eigenen Stimme-Heinrich Zimmermanns Reise um die Welt mit Capitain Cook (1781)" 

Eva Sattelmayer, Queen's University

• "Der erste, der sie betrachtete': Discovery and Possession in E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'Haimatochare'" 

Len Cagle, Lycoming College

• "Heilende Fremde? Ein Beitrag zur Frage, was Gottfried Kellers Pankraz uns verschweigt" 

Annekathrin Lange

• "Die unwissenden Einwohner:' The Erasure of Knowledge in Bernhard Philippi's 'Excursion nach dem grossen Landsee Quetrupe, Pata oder Llauquihue'" 

Regine Heberlein, Fairfield Museum and History Center

1.05 Seneca Room

Representing Trauma: American Redemption Stories and Lost Cause Narratives (Seminar) 

Chair: Trisha Brady, SUNY Buffalo

• "'Save the Trauma for Your Mama': Kara Walker, The Art World's Beloved" 

Dinah Holtzman, University of Rochester

• "Beyond Redemption: African American History and Trauma in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June" 

Eva Tettenborn, Penn State-Worthington/Scranton

• "Heteroglossia, Narrative Conflation, and the Curse of the South in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" 

Allison M. Rittmayer, Bucknell University

• "Yearnin' for Redemption in the New South: Absence and Loss in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and The Sound and the Fury" 

Trisha Brady, SUNY Buffalo